Maria Eichhorn: Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices and Prohibited Imports

Exhibition catalogue from Maria Eichhorn at the Belkin (11 September-13 December 2015) with texts by Nora Alter, Pamela M. Lee, Nina Power and Scott Watson; edited by Greg Gibson, Jana Tyner and Scott Watson. Maria Eichhorn: Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices / Prohibited Imports focuses on two of Eichhorn’s open-ended projects, which both have the representation and regulation of sexual imagery as their theme. Prohibited Imports (2003/08 and 2015) now includes four books censored by Japanese customs and Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices (1999/2005/2008/2014/2015) currently consists of twenty films. Essays by Nora M. Alter, Pamela M. Lee, Nina Power and the exhibition’s curator, Scott Watson, engage the critical dimension of these compelling works. The catalogue is the final work of designer Knut Wiese and is itself a mirror of the works it represents. Maria Eichhorn, one of the most rigorous artists working today, lives and works in Berlin. Her most recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2018), the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2016), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015) and the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014). Eichhorn participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017), documenta 11 in Kassel (2002), the 45^th and 56^th Venice Biennales (1993, 2015) and the 4^th and 9^th Istanbul Biennials (1995, 2005).